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Dead Corsair SSD
GetFrodo
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My Corsair Force 120 drive died today. I hard powered off the laptop yesterday, and today it is no more. It was purchased August 2011 - anyone know offhand what warranty period Corsair offered at the time?
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I think it was three years if I remember rightly.
Do the bios reconise the drive?
5 seconds of Googling says 3 years.
http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/cssd-f120gb2-brkt
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/corsair-force-series-f120-120gb-solid-state-drive-review/
Am just going to order the Samsung 850 EVO 256 as replacement, which offers 5 years / 75 TB written (I assume so, their website actually says 75 Total Bytes Written which is a bit on the low side for my needs.... ). Actually, does any
But for now I am back to spinning platters, plodding through the updates for a 2012 version of Windows
My corsair force 3 is getting on now, over fours years and still going strong.
I am thinking of going for the higher end corsair at some point.
spinning platters, yes, I do not envy you
I think anyone using an SSD would think the same. HDDs are the equivalent to dial-up internet.
Utter nonsense.
I didn't mean literally, but just meant that a HDD is the dial-up of the storage world. SSDs would be the broadband of the storage world.
I won't be going back to them for an operating system if I can help it.
They are not that bad, I still use spinny drives for storage and they still do the job.
I want a larger SSD drive so I can put video on when I am working on them,
I am going to use dial up at the end of the week, got to sort a computer out which is still on dial up internet, should be fun.
Yes, for storage. I'm talking about when opening programs.
I've half a gig SSD as boot disk and 8TB of spinnies for data storage and my machine runs very fast and smooth.
I was talking about for an operating system.
I have a fair bit of software on a 500GB hybrid spinny drive and they open pretty quickly, not as fast as if they was on the SSD, but fast enough.
My steam games, the few I have is on the spinny drive, so is MS office. sony Vegas, photoshop and after effects are on the SSD
I also have a 2TB drive for storage.
How many average computer users have a hybrid HDD though? I'm talking about the HDD that you'll find in averagely priced computers/laptops.
I do not think the hybrid drive makes a lot of difference as a second drive. I have used another computer with the same sort of software I have got and it runs using a 4 year old seagate 1TB drive and it is usable, boot up takes longer, but not a huge amount, Vegas loads in pretty quick. again not as fast as the SDD, but not that much slower and the computer itself is a lesser spec than mine.
Do you defragment it very much? The HDD I had in the last desktop I built wasn't that fast.
i don't defrag mine as windows 8 is suppose to do that. My mate have to defrag his now and again as he have Windows XP still.
I do not defrag my SSD.
I'm wondering whether to replace it even though it still works good otherwise. the firmware is currently 070H with no further update since 2013.
No, that's supposed to quickly shorten the lifespan of it.
XP doesn't have trim. Are you using any software that trims it?